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9 AGs back appeal of dismissed charges against officers who killed Ghaisar 01/18/2022 05:47pm • Three months after a federal judge ruled two U.S. Park Police officers were immune from charges in the killing of unarmed Virginia driver Bijan Ghaisar, nine attorneys general are asking a higher court to reconsider. After state prosecutors in Virginia appealed a U.S. district judge's decision fi Union: Interior seeks to fire officers who shot motorist 11/24/2021 11:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Park Police officers recently cleared of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of an unarmed motorist in northern Virginia have been informed that the Interior Department is seeking to fire them, union officials said Tuesday. Leaders of the Park Police’s Fraternal Interior Department seeks to fire US Park Police officers in fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar 11/23/2021 11:49pm • Four years after two U.S. Park Police officers shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar and a month after they were cleared of the charges, the officers have been informed that the Interior Department is seeking to terminate their employment. Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya received paperwork from the Nat Prosecutors appeal dismissal of manslaughter charges against officers in Bijan Ghaisar death 10/27/2021 08:43am • Virginia prosecutors are appealing the decision of a federal judge to throw out manslaughter charges against U.S. Park Police officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard in the 2017 shooting of motorist Bijan Ghaisar. The notice of appeal, filed by the Virginia Attorney General's Office and the Fa Manslaughter charges dismissed against Park Police officers in Bijan Ghaisar case 10/22/2021 06:40pm • A federal court tossed out involuntary manslaughter charges against the U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot Bijan Ghaisar. A U.S. District judge said Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya, who are accused in the death of the unarmed McLean, Virginia, man following a pursuit along the George Wa Norton, Beyer ask for body and dashboard cameras for federal officers 09/28/2021 08:12am • After bipartisan police reform talks collapsed in Congress last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent letters Monday to President Joe Biden, Capitol Police Board Chair Karen Gibson and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts asking that they require body-worn and dashb Judge to decide immunity for US Park Police officers in Bijan Ghaisar killing 08/23/2021 05:05pm • A federal judge will decide whether two U.S. Park Police officers deserve immunity and a dismissal of state charges in the 2017 killing of unarmed Virginia driver Bijan Ghaisar. Officer Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard's attorneys argued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the federal offi Park Police officers seek immunity from manslaughter charge 08/23/2021 07:12am • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for two U.S. Park Police officers are hoping to persuade a federal judge their clients have immunity from local prosecutors' efforts to charge them with manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed motorist in 2017. A hearing is scheduled Monday in U.S. Distri New evidence reveals officers knew Bijan Ghaisar was not suspect in 2017 fender bender 08/13/2021 08:05pm • New evidence in the case against two U.S. Park Police officers in the death of Bijan Ghaisar reveals that before they shot and killed the 25-year-old Virginia man off the George Washington Parkway, they were alerted that Ghaisar was not the suspect in an earlier fender bender. Four minutes after Bijan Ghaisar's parents ask for former Park Police chief to be removed from task force 07/20/2021 10:00am • Kelly and James Ghaisar protesting on July 20, 2021, outside the U.S. Department of the Interior. (WTOP/Nick Iannelli) The mother and father of Bijan Ghaisar protested Tuesday outside the U.S. Interior Department's Northwest D.C. headquarters, asking for former U.S. Park Police Chief Robert MacL Park Police chief in Ghaisar killing to oversee task force on Interior Department law enforcement 07/12/2021 04:53pm • After a report that criticized the U.S. Park Police response to Black Lives Matter protests in Lafayette Square in June 2020, a task force is being formed to study law enforcement in the Interior Department. The task force, ordered by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, will be led by Robert MacLean, Feds to cooperate in Virginia case against Park Police cops 06/15/2021 05:05pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a break from his predecessors in the Trump administration, is allowing federal agents to cooperate with local prosecutors pursuing manslaughter charges against two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot a Virginia man after a stop-a Park Police chief speaks on body camera rollout, mute on Ghaisar investigation 05/20/2021 05:22pm • Just a few months into her new job, the U.S. Park Police chief said she is committed to transparency in policing and rebuilding the public's trust. Chief Pamela Smith said the Park Police will end the year with all its officers wearing body cameras. "This is one of my priorities that I wanted Virginia prosecutors ask feds to review Park Police shooting 05/20/2021 03:21pm • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — State and local prosecutors in Virginia are asking the Justice Department to reconsider its decision not to prosecute two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot a motorist after a stop-and-go chase in 2017. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and Fairfax County Common Rare defense planned for Park Police officers in Ghaisar killing 05/14/2021 07:21pm • Attorneys for the two U.S. Park Police officers charged in the death of Virginia man Bijan Ghaisar have been granted a hearing, and they plan to invoke a rarely-used defense from the U.S. Constitution. Lawyers for Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya told a federal judge Friday that they plan to arg